Georgia Man Attacks Black Teen After He Was Upset Over His Language While Playing Basketball
A Georgia man has been arrested after he attacked a Black teen due to the 15-year-old was allegedly using profanity while playing basketball with cousins outside his aunt’s home.
Home surveillance footage captured the July 10th incident which shows Matt Martel, 29, confronting Malityk Sim with a belt in his hand. “I was just panicked. I could not believe that in 2021 a fully grown man would think that it was OK to come outside with a belt,” the teen’s mom, Latika Sim told 11Alive. Martel was arrested on Monday, July 12, faces charges of assault, battery, cruelty to children, along with disorderly conduct.
She added that the video shows Martel “running full speed at him,” and that her son was completely “caught off-guard.”
Martel reportedly told the police he was angry after Martel was using profanity as he played basketball with his cousins. Video shows Martel confronting the teen, after grabbing the front of his shirt before the two left the view of the camera. A crash is heard while the two are not on video.
“And he grabbed me with his hands around my neck. He threw me up against a garage and I hit my head,” Sim said, adding that he was in shock but scared to fight back because he thought he would get into trouble.
“My son has played football, he has played every sport, he is fully capable of defending himself. But he knew he could not defend himself. So he walked away. He walked away and still this man is chasing him with a belt. So now I am in a full panic because my kids are unprotected,” Latika said. She was inside her sister’s home at the time, and called the police.
“I have worked in child care for 15 years. I have had kids say crazy things to me, I have had them hit me, I have never once thought, let me take my belt off, and beat someone else’s kid. So even when he’s texting saying, he heard my son say a curse word, I do not care,” she said.
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